This Week in the Big East: Kris Dunn, Xavier, Bill Raftery and much more

12/31/2015

John Rooke and Kevin McNamara host the first edition of This Week in the Big East for the 2016 college basketball season. Guests include Xavier legend Byron Larkin, Big East associate commissioner Stu Jackson and FS1 analyst Bill Raftery.

The hosts for This Week In The BIG EAST are John Rooke, a well-known BIG EAST play-by-play voice for 27 years and Kevin McNamara, who has covered the BIG EAST for 25 seasons at the Providence Journal and is a columnist for Basketball Times. Rooke and McNamara give a comprehensive look at the teams, coaches, players and storied tradition of the top basketball conference in America in each episode.

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